[Python-Dev] Python and the Unicode Character Database

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:56 AM, haiyang kang <cornsea at gmail.com> wrote:
>> But you should be able to write:
>>
>> text = input("Enter a number using your preferred digits: ")
>> num = float(text)
>>
>> without caring whether the user enters 一.一 or 1.1 or something else.
>
> yes. from logical point of view, this can happen. ...

Please stop discussing a non-feature.  Python's float *does not*
accept ' 一.一'.  This was reported as a bug and closed as invalid.

See "makeunicodedata.py does not support Unihan digit data"
http://bugs.python.org/issue10575